Publishing Web Magazines, e-Journals and WebZines: What

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Publishing Web Magazines, e-Journals and
WebZinesWhats Out There?
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• Marieke Napier
• M.Napier_at_ukoln.ac.uk

UKOLN is funded by Resource The Council for
Museums, Archives and Libraries, the Joint
Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the
Higher and Further Education Funding Councils, as
well as by project funding from the JISC and the
European Union. UKOLN also receives support
from the University of Bath where it is based.
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Electronic Publications

• Electronic Magazines
• Electronic Journals
• Webzines
• Electronic Newspapers

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Print versus Electronic

• IS and Library Services groups Bulletins
• Library magazines
• EU Project magazines
• Peer reviewed Journals

http//www.ltss.bris.ac.uk/interact.htm
http//www.is.bham.ac.uk/vision/2/
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Why put it on the Web?
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• Image and Publicity
• Accessibility
• To a wider audience
• Worldwide
• Reduction of cost
• Reduction of production time and effort
• Functionality
• Searchability
• Links
• Fewer limits on article size

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The Negative Aspects
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• Hard work
• You need trained staff to achieve a good magazine
• Loss of some audience
• Money
• Archiving
• Control of Information
• Change of Culture

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Case Study - Cultivate Int.
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• Cultivate Interactive - EU project magazine
• Was released on July 3rd 2000
• Issue published every 3 months
• To date 65 Articles plus news events, jobs,
  games, editorial, competition
• Followed set design guidelines

http//www.cultivate-int.org/
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Technology
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• The technology used to provide Cultivate
  Interactive
• Windows NT 4
• MS Site Server 3.0
• IIS 4.0
• which provides
• Full search capabilities
• Metadata management
• using
• Microsoft Active Server pages (ASP)
• Server Side Includes (SSI)

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Information Dissemination
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• Email message to mailing lists
• Press releases to a number of magazines / E-zines
• Following up referrals for Exploit Interactive -
  a previous Web magazine
• Submission to search engines
• Poster sessions given at conferences
• Additional presentations and workshops planned,
  article in LA record

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Value-added Features

• User Feedback - Peer Review
• Discussion lists
• Interactive games
• Statistics
• Database linking
• Personalisation
• Externally-Hosted Web Services
• Automation of publishing functions

http//www.public.iastate.edu/CYBERSTACKS/EJI.htm
http//www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue18/web-magazine/intr
o.html
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Example - Statistics

• Hit parades
• Externally hosted Web stats

http//www.exploit-lib.org/issue7/statistics/
http//www.bmj.com/hitparade/
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Example - Feedback

• Feedback forms
• Polls

http//www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/w-rd
f/?dwzonexml
http//www.bmj.com/misc/strawpolls.shtml
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Example Magazines

• See the workshop home page for example magazines

lthttp//www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferenc
es/ili-2001/workshop/gt